> The thing is that, in Haskell, even when you attach a function to run during destruction, the runtime doesn't guarantee that the function will be called promptly, or even at all.
However, this is different than the bracket pattern that the article is taking about. No one in the Haskell community advocates cleaning up resources (like file descriptors, etc) using only destructors.
However, this is different than the bracket pattern that the article is taking about. No one in the Haskell community advocates cleaning up resources (like file descriptors, etc) using only destructors.